For Immediate Release: 10/14/19 4:35 p.m.
CHUBBUCK — Chubbuck Police Department’s animal control facility is working hard to connect community members with adoptable cats and dogs.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California utility regulator orders corrective actions, faster power restoration, against PG&E after massive blackouts.
LONDON (AP) — Brexit divorce talks in Brussels are making such slow progress that three European Union nations predicted Monday the negotiations could spill beyond this week's crucial Brexit summit.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — One option in a plan to battle devastating wildfires in southwestern Idaho, southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada creates 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of fuel breaks up to 400 feet (120 meters) wide along existing roads.
THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — Two Pacific Northwest tribes on Monday demanded the removal of three major hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River to save migrating salmon and starving orcas and restore fishing sites that were guaranteed to the tribes in a treaty more than 150 years ago.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on California power shutoffs to prevent wildfires (all times local):
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Thousands of indigenous demonstrators, student volunteers and local residents launched a mass cleanup Monday of a Quito park where anti-austerity protesters fought police for days, leaving piles of burning tires, trees and construction material.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Brandishing red flares and shouting "glory to Ukraine," thousands of far-right and nationalist activists marched Monday through Kyiv, protesting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's leadership and his long-awaited peace plan for eastern Ukraine.
BOISE — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday partially lifted a pause in a court case so an Idaho transgender inmate could receive “all presurgical treatments … necessary for gender confirmation surgery.”
CALDWELL — The sister of a teenager shot in Nampa last year said her brother’s killer is only a child, not a horrible person.
NEW YORK (AP) — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal "The Anxiety of Influence" and melancholy regard for literature's old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89.
The following letter from Superintendent Dr. Doug Howell was distributed Monday to the parents and guardians of learners attending the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25. No additional information regarding this event is available at this time.
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Syrian government troops moved into towns and villages in northeastern Syria on Monday, including the flashpoint region of Manbij, setting up a potential clash with Turkish-led forces advancing in the area as long-standing alliances in the region began to shift or cru…
NEW YORK (AP) — Harold Bloom, author of 'The Anxiety of Influence,' dies at 89.
The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers' license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance, alarming some civil rights advocates.
SEATTLE (AP) — This past summer, city of Seattle officials sent a warning to about 60 of its employees: They may have been exposed to toxic chemical compounds during a January cleanup of a Sodo homeless encampment.
THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — Two Pacific Northwest tribes are calling for the removal of three major hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River.
POCATELLO — A local taproom is going mobile.
Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on local grain economies. Part I covered the value consumers of local grain place on producers' stories. Part II detailed the rise of small mills in the Northwest. All installments are posted online at postregister.com/farma…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A police officer who shot and killed a black woman in her home in the presence of her 8-year-old nephew acted inappropriately and has resigned, the chief of police said Monday, after Atatiana Jefferson's surviving family called for the man to be fired and charged.
The U.S. decision to withdraw from northeastern Syria after paving the way for a Turkish invasion has placed the oil-rich region back in play, heralding a new phase in the long civil war in which America's adversaries are set to make major gains.
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on a jury acquitting a former Georgia police officer of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed naked veteran (all times local):
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A panel discussion on caring for patients following a man-made or natural disaster and Stop the Bleed training highlight the Emergency Nurses Association 's Fall Regional Symposium in Milwaukee on Nov. 7-8.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho utility has reached an agreement involving paying homeowners who generate electricity with rooftop solar panels and other renewable energy methods.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors have found a former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked man not guilty of murder.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jury finds former Georgia officer who fatally shot unarmed, naked man not guilty of murder; guilty of other crimes.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills, regionally organized campaigns linked together as a worldwide preparedness movement spanning 60+ countries, are involving more than 63.9 million people (and counting) in earthquake safety activities throughout 2019.…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Millions of Californians spent part of the week in the dark in an unprecedented effort by the state's large electrical utilities to prevent another devastating wildfire. It was the fifth time Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has preemptively cut the power but by far the la…
KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Six middle and high school sustained minor injuries when a vehicle collided with the school bus they were riding in southwestern Idaho.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Southern California will host a full-day exploration of the opportunities and threats to business in sports, television, data analytics, and insurance at the 2019 Risk Management Symposium on November 19.
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LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A retired soldier who was shot in the head while searching for Army Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl has died.
TORONTO (AP) — It's just a few hours before "Jojo Rabbit" will make its world premiere and writer-director Taika Waititi is still figuring out how to talk about it.
The man accused of stabbing a woman multiple times at her Pocatello residence near Idaho State University is sitting in Bannock County Jail while the victim remains hospitalized in Salt Lake City.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are wobbling between small gains and losses in early trading on Wall Street Monday as investors remain cautious about the prospects of a full trade agreement between the U.S. and China.
NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Automated accounts, or bots, likely generate more than half of all Twitter traffic about vaping and tobacco products, often targeting minors and promoting misinformation about e-cigarettes, according to a new report from The Public Good Projects (P…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A University of Mississippi honors student has reported himself to the college for posting a photo online of him wearing blackface, prompting the school to issue a warning about costumes.
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), the leading national nonprofit organization caring for the families of our nation's fallen military heroes, marks its 25th anniversary on Oct. 17, 2019. Since 1994, the organization has provide…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- For thousands of years, dogs have been our best friends, our protectors, and often our heroes, improving and even saving lives. That is why each October, American Humane, the country's first national humane organization and the nation's leading first…
HONG KONG (AP) — A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to "kill or to harm" riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The plutonium core for the first atomic weapon detonated in 1945 was taken from Los Alamos National Laboratory to a test site in the New Mexico desert in the backseat of a U.S. Army sedan.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Continent 8 Technologies, the award-winning, multi-jurisdictional global network and cloud infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that Brian Borysewich has joined Continent 8 as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Brian …
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with lung blood clots who smoke are more likely to be readmitted for lung blood clots than nonsmokers, according to Kam Sing Ho, MD, from Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West in New York City, who will present the study findings at…
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The long-acting bronchodilator aclidinium bromide (AB) is safe for patients at increased risk for heart attack and stroke and reduces the risk of new exacerbations in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), regardless of whether th…
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- There is nearly a 40% chance of overdiagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) when spirometry is not combined with bronchodilator (BD) testing, often missing asthma and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS), according to Srinadh Annangi,…
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaping is not a low-risk substitute for smoking cigarettes, according to researcher Charlie Lin, MD, who authored a case study of a 34-year-old former smoker diagnosed with granulomatosis attributed to two months of electronic cigarette use. Dr. L…
POCATELLO — A teenage girl from Pocatello has been reported missing.
REXBURG — Chinese officials arrested China Horizons director Alyssa Petersen last month and charged her with “illegally moving people across borders.” Petersen’s family believes the charges to be unfounded and have set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for legal fees.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trey Gowdy swore he'd had enough of Washington. Disgusted by what he'd seen, the Republican congressman from South Carolina retired from office last year, declaring his skills are better used "in a courtroom than in Congress."
Jim Risch had just asked Pat Kole of the Idaho Potato Commission about this year’s potato crop when his cell phone rang loudly, its bright, old-fashioned “brring, brring” ringtone startling everyone in the conference room of Risch’s Senate office. “Guys, this is the White House — I gotta take this,” Risch said, ducking out of the meeting. In his 10 years in the nation’s capital, Risch has gone from...
BLACKFOOT — A large crowd gathered in decent weather Thursday afternoon as ground was officially broken on Cromwell Lane for Idaho’s much-anticipated second state veterans cemetery.
POCATELLO — Pocatello firefighters are wearing pink and raising funds for prevention during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Canadian company hoping to mine for gold in central Idaho wants a lawsuit filed by the Nez Perce Tribe requesting that the site be cleaned up to be put on hold.
POCATELLO — Authorities have arrested a 42-year-old Pocatello man on drug-related charges.
HENRY’S LAKE — A single-engine airplane coming in for a landing at the Henry’s Lake Airstrip overturned upon landing Saturday afternoon. There were no injuries.
POCATELLO — After stepping into his Idaho State Police uniform and adjusting the brim of his trooper hat, District 5 Capt. Eric Dayley went out to work every day for 35 years with one goal in mind, “What good can I do today.”
